If Israel announced today that it was forgoing, for now, a full-blown invasion of Gaza, who would be happy, who would be relieved, and who would be upset?
′ Israel correspondent Isabel Kershner recently asked an Israeli army tank driver, Shai Levy, 37, to describe the purpose of the looming Israeli invasion of Gaza, he said something that really caught my ear. It was “to restore honour to Israel,” he said. “The citizens are relying on us to defeat Hamas and remove the threat from Gaza once and for all.”
And so let me say loudly and clearly what I have been saying quietly in my past few columns: I am with President Joe Biden when he told “60 Minutes” that it would be a “big mistake” for Israel “to occupy Gaza again.”, which included unimaginable barbarism, into a long-term moral and military strategic crisis.
If Israel were to announce today that it has decided for now to forgo an invasion of Gaza and will look for more surgical means to eliminate or capture Hamas’ leadership while trying to engineer a trade, it would not only avoid further traumatising its own society, as well as Palestinian civilians in Gaza, it would also give Israel and its allies time to think through how to build — with Palestinians — a legitimate alternative to Hamas.
But, as I said, if Israel still decides it must enter Gaza to capture and kill Hamas’ leadership, it must only do so if it has in place a legitimate Palestinian leadership to replace Hamas — so Israel is not left governing there forever. If that happens, every day that the sun doesn’t shine in Gaza, the water doesn’t flow, the electricity doesn’t operate and hunger or disease becomes widespread will be the fault of every Israeli and even every Jew in the world.
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